Rapid prototyping is a faster, more cost-effective method for building prototypes from three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) drawings. Rapid Prototyping provides a fundamental overview of the general manufacturing process and presents the principles and applications of designing and fabricating parts in a format that makes learning easy. This user-friendly text features basic information on layered manufacturing processes, the essential vocabulary of nomenclature, numerous review exercises, case studies, a full section of rapid prototyping applications, helpful material for further study, applications to real-world problems, and more.
About the Author
RAFIQ NOORANI, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
Features
The only book available that covers all aspects of rapid prototyping from the technology itself through the materials used to the industry applications.
Written for classroom use: includes problems and cases studies.
Includes a chapter on the global RP industry as a whole which is unavailable anywhere else.